The museum is very family-oriented, with lots of hands-on exhibits and activities for children of all ages, including several fun museum trails. In addition we run popular children’s craft activities in the school holidays.
Many interesting displays of largely local exhibits cover the extensive history of the area and offer something for both parents and children. We also have a specific children’s room with vintage toys and games to play with, and a dressing up box to let their imagination take flight.

The museum has an extensive pre-history collection of fossils, local worked flints, pottery and other artefacts, as well as items from the Roman, Medieval and later periods, with large easy-to-read interpretation boards to bring it all to life. The museum also offers an outreach service to schools, providing a number of handling boxes of artefacts to enhance subject learning.

The museum is an ideal venue to undertake some historical research, especially of the local area – we have extensive collections of local maps, postcards, photographs and ephemera to bring the past to life, as well as an archive of local history books and publications to view and for sale, especially from the local history group, the Bourne Society